#Iraq Feb 10 2024 Report After Gaza War began emergency session of Hashd held led by Hashd chief of staff Abu Fadak Islamic Resistance In Iraq announced and attacks began on US troops in Iraq and Syria afterward musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-sudani-...

#Iraq Feb 10 2021 KRG PM Barzani said journalists and activists who had been arrested during 2020 protests were spies musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-kazemi-...

#Iraq Feb 10 2016 Report Hashd blew up dozens of homes in Salahaddin town Claimed they belonged to IS musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

#Iraq Feb 10 2015 Report Yazidis returning to Sinjar Found mass graves of IS victims Carried out revenge attacks on Arabs Attacked 4 villages Jan 25 2 more on Jan 26 Peshmerga stopped attacks on 2 other towns 21 killed Yazidis blamed Arabs for helping IS musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

#Iraq Feb 10 2015 Report KRG hadn’t paid oil companies since Nov 2014 DNO official said it wouldn’t investment in KRG until it was paid again Oil Companies were going to sell to local markets rather than export musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-oil-...

#Iraq Feb 10 2013 NRT TV office bombed in Sulaymaniya after someone called station and criticized Pres Barzani 300 KDP members protested outside station and tried to storm building musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Feb 10 2013 Human Rights Watch KRG carried out arbitrary arrests of journalists activists opposition members Sued journalists who criticized KRG Arrested reporters without warrants and held without charges musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Feb 10 2012 Report Total interested in working in KRG Said KRG contracts better than Baghdad’s Tough terms demanded by Baghdad turned off some companies 2009 Total won contract for Halfaya oil field in Maysan musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-oil-...

#Iraq Feb 10 2012 Report Security analyst said Iran smuggled 10% of Basra’s oil production musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-oil-...

#Iraq Feb 10 2012 Sadrists held rally in Baghdad for withdrawal of US forces Sadr speech claimed resistance made the U.S. depart and lose in Iraq musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#iraq Feb 10 2011 Arrest warrant issued for Interior Min Gen Jabiri head of counter explosive dept for buying fake bomb detectors Interior Min Inspector General believed 75% of money spent on devices went to kickbacks for officials musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Feb 10 2010 Ninewa Gov Nujafi visited Takleef Locals threw rocks and tomatoes at his caravan leading to shots being fired ISF with Nujafi arrested some peshmerga who retaliated by arresting some soldiers Eventually prisoners released musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/1st-pm-mal...

#Iraq Feb 10 2010 Protests in Karbala against Baathists Claimed there were Baathists throughout the provincial govt and ISF Part of drive by Shiite parties to make Baathists main issue of 2010 vote musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/1st-pm-mal...

#Iraq Feb 10 2009 World Bank Report Iraq’s economic performance better with improved security Cut inflation Spending more of investment budget Govt slowly rebuilding Unemployment still high Services some of worst in Mideast musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_...

#Iraq Feb 10 2009 Report ISCI and Kurds biggest loser in 09 provincial elections ISCI lost in Baghdad and south ISCI blamed for mismanagement and corruption Kurdish vote in Ninewa went from 75% in 05 when Sunnis boycotted to 25% in 09 musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_...

#Iraq Feb 10 2007 Report US intel said Iran and Hezbollah providing weapons and training to Iraqi militias Mehran border crossing major conduit US trying to crackdown on Iranian cells operating in Iraq musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/1st-pm-mal...

#Iraq Feb 10 2006 Fmr CIA Natl Intel officer for Near East Pillar said intel on Iraq was cherry picked by White House to justify war musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-jaafari...

#Iraq Feb 10 2006 Report 1920 Revolution Brigades Amman Brigades Mujahadeen Army working to expel Al Qaeda in Iraq from Ramadi after it killed head of Albu Fahad tribe musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqi-insu...

#Iraq Feb 10 2005 NSC staffer Zelikow told Sec State Rice Iraq failed state stuck in violence musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqi-inte...

#Iraq Feb 10 2004 Report almost all of Sec State Powell’s 03 UN speech on Iraq WMD and ties to terrorism proved wrong musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-wmd-...

#Iraq Feb 10 2004 CPA Order 57 created Inspector Generals in each Iraqi ministry to fight corruption musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/us-occupat...

#Iraq Feb 10 2004 US Iraq cmdr Gen Sanchez briefed NSC official Blackwill on plans for US military to withdraw from Iraqi cities as part of transition to Iraqi control musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/us-occupat...

#Iraq Feb 10 2003 UK created Iraq Planning Unit with less than 10 people after found out US had no real postwar plans for Iraq UK didn’t do much planning either musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pre-2003-i...

#Iraq Feb 10 2003 German officials investigating Zarqawi said found no evidence he was linked to Iraqi govt musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraq-al-qa...

#Iraq Feb 10 2003 New Yorker article repeated UnderSecDef Feith’s office claim that Iraq connected to Al Qaeda and supporting Zarqawi musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraq-al-qa...

#Iraq Feb 10 2003 UK intel report said attack on Iraq would increase threat of terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pre-2003-i...

#Iraq Feb 10 2003 France Germany Russia statement called for more time for inspections Doused US hopes France would back 2nd UN Res on Iraq musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pre-2003-i...

#Iraq Feb 10 2002 VP Cheney speech said Iraq harbored terrorists and US wouldn’t allow terrorist states to threaten US with WMD musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-wmd-...

#Iraq Feb 10 1998 UK Foreign Sec Cook told parliament Iraq still had stocks of WMD Might still be hiding missiles as well musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-wmd-...

#Iraq Feb 10 1973 Iraq-Iran border clash Brigade from Iraq’s 3rd Armored Div attacked Mehran Iran knew about attack beforehand Ambushed Iraqi unit and destroyed it 23 Iraqis and 41 Iranians killed Iran flew F-4 jets deep into Iraq in show of force musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_...

#Iraq Feb 10 1964 Pres Arif agreed to ceasefire with Mulla Mustafa Barzani and that Kurdish rights would be recognized in provisional constitution KDP denounced deal because didn’t mention autonomy KDP didn’t follow ceasefire musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraq-histo...

#Iraq Feb 10 1963 Street fighting between Communists and Baath National Guard ended musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraq-histo...

#Iraq Feb 10 1963 New military-Baath govt and Barzani declared ceasefire in Kurdish revolt musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraq-histo...

#Iraq Feb 10 1963 KDP sent message to Natl Rev Command Council saying it welcomed coup Asked for ceasefire in Kurdish revolt release of Kurdish prisoners compensation for injured remove officials who were anti-Kurd declaration of Kurdish autonomy musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraq-histo...

#Iraq Feb 10 1949 Communist Party Chairman Yusuf and 2 politburo members put on trial 2nd time Convicted and sentenced to death for leading protests Part of PM Said’s campaign against opposition musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqi-hist...

#Iraq Feb 10 1258 Abbasid Caliph Mustasim surrendered Baghdad to Mongols Residents taken to camps where they were executed Christians and Jews spared Mongol leader Hulagu said he killed 200,000 City eventually burned musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/abbasid-pe...

#iraq US threatening sanctions to push KDP & PUK into deal KDP supposed to withdraw its candidate for president PUK would agree to new Kurdish regional govt & get Kurdish Interior Ministry al-aalem.com/%d9%88%d8%b3...

#Iraq Justice Workers in Diwaniya went on strike for not being paid Municipal & Textile workers in Diyala & Babil demonstrated over 15% cut in their pay Declining oil prices & bloated budget are leading to financial crisis that could explode almadapaper.net/426517/

Musings On #Iraq This Day In Iraqi History - Feb 10 Abbasids surrendered Baghdad to Mongols who then massacred population musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2026/02/this...

Musings On #Iraq This Day In Iraqi History - Feb 10 Abbasids surrendered Baghdad to Mongols who then massacred population musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2026/02/this...

Musings On #Iraq Where Is US Policy On Iraq Headed? musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2026/02/wher...

Musings On #Iraq This Day In Iraqi History - Feb 9 General Qasim executed in 1963 coup musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2026/02/this...

#Iraq Under normal admin president & staff approve policy Work together to carry it out Not what happens under Trump People are given special positions because of ties with president Can largely act on their own because Trump doesn't know about issue musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2026/02/wher...

US domestic politics has also come into play with #Iraq policy Jan State Dept said it was suspending visas from Iraq and other countries Worried that Iraqis will get on welfare Spurred by fake stories of Somali immigrant fraud in Minnesota musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2026/02/wher...

#Iraq's ruling Coordination Framework caught by surprise by Trump's post that he opposed Maliki Shiite official said US had told them they didn't like Maliki but gave no warning that Trump would publicly come out against him musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2026/02/wher...

Dec Congress passed new Natl Def Authorization Act Supposed to cut aid to #Iraq by 50% until Resistance disarmed No word that has been implemented If US not carried out these threats what's to say it will carry out others? musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2026/02/wher...

Another problem Trump's envoys & White House not working with other agencies March US ended #Iraq's exemption from sanctions on buying Iranian electricity but trade continues musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2026/02/wher...

Savaya might have taken money from Iraqi parties Al Mada said he got $5 mil from Iraqis before he was made special envoy to #Iraq Al Alam mentioned claim as well 2nd Trump admin has seen blatant corruption so this would come as no surprise if true musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2026/02/wher...

#Iraq Savaya for instance never went to Baghdad Relied upon social media posts public announcements and phone calls with Iraqis to carry out his duties musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2026/02/wher...

#Iraq Since Trump is largely ignorant of foreign affairs his special representatives have large leeway in how policy is implemented musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2026/02/wher...